Saddle-bag.



No- 761,782. PATENTBD JUNE? 1904 L. N. PRUDHOMMB. SADDLE BAG.

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' I I .1 "1" 55 .1 1,. ,1? "1% r UNITED STATES Patented June 7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS NARCISSE PRUDI-IOMME, OF BERMUDA, LOUISIANA.

SADDLE-BAG- SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,782, dated June 7, 1904. Application filed August 8, 1901- Renewed May 6, 1904. Serial No. 206,693. (No model.)

To LLZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs NAROISSE PRUD- HOMME, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bermuda, in theparish of Natchitoches and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Saddle-Bags,

The improvement is designed especially for use in the transportation of the mails where horseback service is necessary, as in rural free delivery, &c. With this end in view I provide a device provided with a series of pockets or receptacles of ready access for the reception of mail-matter and designed to be applied directly to a horse without the use of a saddle and fastened to the horse by means of girths and a breast-strap and crupper attached to the same.

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring now to the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a top plan view of the bag spread. out and the top cover broken partly away in order to show the manner in which the flap-cover is fastened to the sides of the bag. Fig. 2 is a side view of the bag with one side of the top cover and flap-cover broken away. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view of the bag, taken on line a b of Fig. 1..

Similar characters of reference indicate like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

In the drawings, '1 designates the skirt or main body portion of the bag, of leather, canvas, or other suitable and convenient material and provided with girths 2 and a breaststrap 3 and crupper 4. To each side of this skirt there is secured a strip of material 5, forming a receptacle or pocket, divided into compartments or bags 0, cl, and e, the bottoms and sides thereof of which are made up of flexible leather foldings f, so as to adapt them to varying capacities.

v 6 designates the flap-cover, which is designed to close the mouths of the bags and it down flat with the sides thereof. This cover is provided with a series of openings 7 which are designed to take over a series of staples or loop eyes 8: secured to the sides of the bags or receptacles.

9 designates a piece of metal or stiff leather for protecting the openings 7 1O designates a strapsewed at one end to the flap-cover 6 and designed to securely fasten the same to the sides of the bags and close the mouths thereof by passing its free end through the staples 8 and then fastening its free end by means of a padlock 11 or other suitable fastening.

12 designates a cover of oil-cloth, rubber, or some other suitable and convenient material and designed to fit down and be fastened .to the sides of the bags by means of straps and buckles 13.

let designates straps and buckles secured to the flap-cover 6 and designed to hold rolls of blankets, guns, &c.

It will beobserved that the cover 12 is made wider and longer than the skirt 1, so that the same will cover the bags when they' are filled to their full capacity.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-

1. A saddle-bag, comprising a suitable skirt, forming the 'main body portion thereof, two strips of material secured to the sides thereof by means of flexible pieces of material, forming pockets, divided into suitable compartments or bags, flap-covers secured to the skirt above the mouths of said compartments or bags and closing the same, means for se-' curing said flap-covers to the sides of said bags, and a cover secured at its center to the skirt intermediate the said-bags and covering the same, substantially as descrlbed.

2. In a saddle-bag, the combination with a skirt forming the main body portion thereof; the same, substantially as and for the purof strips of material secured to the sides thereof pose set forth. 1 0 by means of flexible pieces of material forming In testimony whereof .I have a llixed my sigcompartments or bags, flap-covers secured to nature in presence of two witnesses.

said skirt above the mouths of said bags and LOUIS NARCISSE IHUIHlOMMH. closingthe same, means for securing said flap- \Vitnesses:

covers to the sides of said bags, and a cover P. A. PRUDHOMM 1c,

secured at its center to the skirt and covering JAS. B. TUCKER. 

